PSU Baseball downs Colby-Sawyer

PLYMOUTH, N.H. - Freshman Joe Eramo
(Shirley, Mass.) had three hits and five runs batted in Thursday
afternoon to lead Plymouth State University to a 16-5 victory over
Colby-Sawyer College in non-conference baseball action at Panther
Park.

Eramo knocked in three runs with a bases-clearing triple in the
third inning, sandwiched between RBI singles in the third and fifth
innings. He helped the Panthers improve to 9-14 overall,
while the Chargers went home with an 11-16 mark.

The PSU offense finished with 22 hits, the most in a game
since getting 23 hits in a 16-4 win over Rivier College in April of
2002. Seniors Jay Kleponis (Reading, Mass.)
and Nick Englert (North Woodstock, N.H.), freshman
Mike Cappiello (Westfield, N.J.) and junior
Anthony Fallacaro (Niskayuna, N.Y.) also collected
three hits apiece for the Panthers. Kleponis smacked a pair
of doubles and drove in two, giving him a team-high 10 two-baggers
on the season.

Sophomore left-hander John Andersch (Concord,
N.H.) worked seven innings and picked up the win for PSU, evening
his record at 2-2 on the season. He allowed four runs (one
earned) on four hits and five walks while striking out nine,
second-most in his career.

Senior Tom White (Lisbon, N.H.) had three hits and two RBI to lead
the Chargers. He had a run-scoring single in the first inning
to help his team to an early 2-0 lead, and added an RBI double in
the ninth.

Down 2-0, PSU took the lead for good with three runs in the third
inning. The Panthers turned it into a rout with four runs in
the fourth inning, two in both the fifth and sixth innings, and
five more in the eighth.

PSU
continues its seven-game home stand Friday at Panther Park with a
Little East Conference contest against the University of Southern
Maine (3:30 p.m.) Colby-Sawyer plays a Commonwealth Coast
Conference doubleheader Saturday at Curry College (12:00
p.m.)